‘Worst enemies’? Progressives are the ones fighting the corrupt president

K.J. Dolney’s letter, “‘Progressives’ are our worst enemies,” lacks both historical context and sense.

He references George Kennan’s “Long Telegram,” sent from Moscow in February 1946. Indeed, the famous telegram does mention left-wing non-communist elements as dangerous to “bourgeois-capitalist” societies.

But do we really need to remind the writer that in 1946 Europe was a shambles and containment of the Soviet Union was at the forefront of U.S. diplomacy both abroad and at home? News flash: Both the Soviet Union and George Kennan are long dead, and the world is no longer threatened by global communism, and we already had McCarthy’s Red Scare.

Mr. Dolney then pivots to the 2016 election, and brings up the silly “Deep State” conspiracy theory the right is fond of. The reality is that the former Soviet Union — in the form of Russia — did interfere in the 2016 election, if only by running all kinds of propaganda up the flagpole to see who would salute.

It is still in the interest of Russia — an authoritarian state — to sow confusion and doubt in free societies such as ours.

The fact is that “progressives” are the only group I’m seeing who demonstrate any kind of moral compass in the face of the most corrupt, self-serving and twisted administration ever in our history. Whose “worst enemies” does that make them?

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